FORGETTING WHAT IT WAS TO REMEMBER THE INDONESIAN KILLINGS OF 1965–6

Historical Injustice and Democratic Transition in Eastern Asia and Northern Europe: Ghosts at the Table of Democracy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 38-56

  Goodfellow, Robert ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203220351-4     Document Type: Chapter

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3. Ian Buruma, The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (London: Vintage, 1995).
4. Kumar Rupesinghe (with Sanam Naraghi Anderlini), Civil Wars, Civil Peace: An Introduction to Conflict Resolution (London: Pluto Press, 1998), p. 24. We mention this figure as an indicative one only; the counting of casualties is enormously difficult and is commonly subject to massive over-and under-statement.
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7. Derek Summerfield, ‘Raising the Dead: War Reparation and the Politics of Memory’, British Medical Journal, 311 (1995), 495-7. See also Andrew O’Hagan, The Missing (London: Picador, 1995), p. 134.
8. George Sher, ‘Ancient Wrongs and Modern Rights’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 10(1) (Winter 1981), 3-17, argues a philosophical case for a fairly steady diminution over time in the extent to which past wrongs can have a legitimate moral influence on present political and social relations. His main argument is that with the passage of time the malign effect of the original wrong is diluted by a host of other historical factors, eventually reaching a point at which its direct and identifiable effect is negligible.
9. Bruce B. Campbell and Arthur D. Brenner, eds, Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000).
10. Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 1-4.
11. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Works: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (Moscow: Progress Press, 1968), p. 95.
12. Alexandra Barahona de Brito, Carmen Gonzalez-Enriquez and Palomar Aguilar, eds, The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). The volume also includes a valuable bibliography on the issue of transitional justice.
13. Barrington Moore Jr, ‘How Ethnic Enmities End’, in Jocelyne Couture, Kai Nielsen and Michel Seymour, eds, Rethinking Nationalism (Calgary: University of Alberta Press, 1996), pp. 109-33, offers a sobering long-term perspective on the sometimes brutal techniques which can bring enmities to an end.